Gonçalves Isabelinha

Joaquim Duarte Gonçalves Isabelinha was a Portuguese footballer for [Associação Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F.|Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F.|Académica de Coimbra] and a medical doctor.
Born to a relatively modest family in Almeirim, Portugal, at a time that study at the secondary school aiming the university admission was considered a luxury in Portugal, Isabelinha studied at the Liceu de Santarém between 1922 and 1930, playing football for Leões de Santarém team.
In Coimbra, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, where he graduated in 1936, he played for Académica de Coimbra and is still remembered today. Professionally, he qualified as a medical ophthalmologist in 1940.